Damn That Was Close

Barbara Roettger got some unexpected facetime with a pod of humpback whales when she unwittingly happened upon a lunge feeding off the coast of Santa Cruz that nearly made her the main course.

She managed to come away from the experience unscathed, with some once-in-a-lifetime footage. Quite literally: Roettger says that when it comes to whale feedings, she “will now only spectate from the decidedly safer dry land.”